Laughter Lifts the Heart
Several years into it, and this blog still refuses to be categorized. It's eclectic and includes everything from writing posts to snippets from my ordinary life. Welcome to this crazy place. You're bound to find something you like.
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Give the Lady a Ride
A Circle Bar Ranch Novel 1
The Final Ride
A Circle Bar Ranch Novel 2
Ride to the Altar
A Circle Bar Ranch Novel 3
Circle Bar Ranch Coloring Book
The Cowboys
A Southern Season
Skydiving to Love: a Novella
The Cat Lady’s Secret
Writing in Obedience
A Christian Writers Guide
Tag Archives: POV
Great Lesson About POV
I spent a little time this past weekend catching up on my emails and blog subscriptions. I am always behind, and sometimes the only thing I can do when I get overwhelmed is delete the lot of them. I’m glad I … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, write tips, Writing, Writing Tips
Tagged Deep POV, Donald Maass, fiction writing, Julia Fierro, POV, The Gypsy Moth Summer, Writer Unboxed, Writing
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Ellie Calls Him Daddy
In last Wednesday’s post, “Deep POV: Thinking Like Your Character,” I explained about how clumsy familial relationships can be when writing in deep POV. I’ve written about it before, and keep forgetting to clarify about using the POV character’s name. Sure enough, … Continue reading
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Tagged Deep POV, Family relationships in Deep POV, fiction writing, novel writing, POV, Writing
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Deep POV: Thinking Like Your Character
Writing in a deep first or third person point of view is tricky. Just plain tricky. You’re limited to your POV character’s thoughts, physicality, emotions, knowledge. Everything that is going on in your story is interpreted through your POV character’s … Continue reading
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Tagged deep first person POV, Deep POV, deep third person POV, novel writing, POV, write tip, write tips, Writing
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Setting Descriptions: Keep in Character
Whether you write in intimate first person, which allows the reader to experience what the characters experience as if walking around in their skin, or a more distant person, where some omniscient someone tells the story, often from … Continue reading
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Tagged character, first person, Jack Ryan, novel writing, omniscient, POV, setting description, Tom Clancy, Writing, writing fiction, Writing Tips
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A Study in Omniscient POV: Part 2
Wednesday, I introduced the validity of the omniscient point of view as the perspective of choice for authors who are “after the kind of insight that comes from contemplating events rather than participating in them” (Characters, Emotions, & Viewpoint, Nancy Kress, p. 207). … Continue reading
A Study in Omniscient POV, Part 1
Billy did something in his new release that isn’t done much these days: he used the omniscient point of view. I haven’t seen it in modern works in so long that I had to study it again to find out … Continue reading
Posted in Writing, Writing Tips
Tagged Billy Coffey, Christian Fiction, In the Heart of the Dark Wood, literary fiction, Omniscient POV, POV
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Characterization Multitasking
Your two main characters are in the same scene, but they’re not together. He’s doing his thing, she’s doing hers. You can reveal so much about both when you illustrate your POV character observing the other. Of course you can … Continue reading
Mom and Dad in Deep Third POV 3
Monday, I wrote the second part of a post I’d initially begun on my other blog, AuthorCulture. Apparently I hit a nerve–and to a certain extent, I think the nerve tingled because some of the readers didn’t understand what I was … Continue reading
Posted in Writing, Writing Tips
Tagged Deep POV, fiction writing, first person, novel writing, POV, pronouns, third person, Writing, Writing Tips
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Mom and Dad in Deep Third POV 2
I’ve written about the idea of calling parents “Mom” and “Dad” in deep third person before on my collaborative blog, AuthorCulture. It has always bothered me, though I never understood why until the day when I was editing a manuscript written in … Continue reading
Posted in Writing, Writing Tips
Tagged Deep POV, fiction writing, first person, novel writing, POV, pronouns, third person, Writing, Writing Tips
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